The Anglo concertina is one of the most physically immediate instruments in folk music —
your fingers find patterns, your arm feels the bellows, and the music lives in
the body as much as in the mind. Traditional notation gets in the way of this.
A stave tells you almost nothing about where to put your fingers or which way to move the bellows.
NoteFlow addresses the instrument directly. The tile colour removes any doubt about which hand.
The row·button coordinate replaces every fingering chart you would otherwise need to memorise.
The curved edge shape gives bellows direction an instant visual identity —
once seen a few times, it becomes as automatic as a traffic light.
Both the established Gary Coover numbering system and the
NoteFlow row·button coordinate format are fully supported.
Your account preference applies to every score you open.
Teachers can use one system, students another.
Scores are available in both Wheatstone and Jeffries layouts. The button positions differ
slightly between the two systems — NoteFlow knows both, and renders fingering
correctly for whichever you play.
Bellows direction — the same button, two notes
The same button — C row, button 5.
The tile shape confirms direction at a glance.
Width is duration — always
A tile that fills its slot is a crotchet. Half width is a quaver.
The eye reads the rhythm before counting a single beat.